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Dauphin School (2007)
After discovering the wonderful article below (Athens Weekly Review (Texas), January 18, 1901), I wanted to know more about the young Texas student who wrote it. By researching the census, death...
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Letter From An Old Settler (2007)
When I saw this old newspaper article on the Internet, I was captivated by the author’s simple eloquence and his vivid description of life on the Wisconsin frontier more than 150 years ago. I wanted to...
View ArticleSeventeen Brought To Dubuque (2007)
Mr. Robert Curran, accompanied by Mrs. E. Higgins, the matron in charge, arrived over the Milwaukee at 8:06 yesterday morning with a flock of orphans from the Catholic foundling asylum in New York....
View ArticleEmigrants (2007)
The names of emigrants who left Schuyler county in 1849 for California, as furnished by Jonathan D. Manlove, Esq., leader of the company. The company left Rushville on the first of April and reached...
View ArticleSaw Their Old Bones (2007)
The first article below, and the additional one I found later got my curiosity up. Who was this Dr. Rae Felt? “Interesting name,” I thought. And notice in the second article that the X-ray technology...
View ArticleRural Mail Delivery Experiment (2007)
Within two years a man standing in Indianapolis will be able to put his finger on every farmhouse in Indiana – that is, on the map, says the Indianapolis News. This is one of the details of the rural...
View ArticlePoor All Her Life (2007)
There died at the county home a few days ago a woman remarkable in one respect, and that is that she in all probability held the world record as to successive days spent in the almshouse. Her name is...
View ArticleFight In Corkedale’s Row (2008)
That pack of two-legged live stock known as the McDermotts had a field day on Thursday. The fight commenced at 1 o’clock and continued until seven in the evening. It was the greatest female “scrap”...
View ArticleEloped With Tifton Girl (2008)
Miss Hattie Squires, a most beautiful and modest maiden of sixteen summers, living three miles east of Tifton, was married to Mr. Cecil E. Bower, a worthy young business man of our city, last Sunday...
View ArticleAn Elopement (2009)
Last week Mr. James Tuttle and a Mrs. Chapman, living about seven miles north of Louisville, eloped. Mr. Tuttle was a married man and Mrs. Chapman a married woman, each having a family. They were close...
View ArticleThe Iceless Refrigerator (2009)
The iceless refrigerator, which is the very latest refinement of the electrical industry, threatens to dethrone the ice man so effectually that it may be but a short time before his shining morning...
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The Real Dr. Frankenstein (2010)
The following articles appeared in the Westphalia Times (Kansas), in 1885 and 1886. November 12, 1885 M.F. Moore sold his drug store to Knapp & Son, and Dr. Frankenstein will conduct it. Dec 17,...
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Dauphin School (2007)
After discovering the wonderful article below (Athens Weekly Review (Texas), January 18, 1901), I wanted to know more about the young Texas student who wrote it. By researching the census, death...
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Letter From An Old Settler (2007)
When I saw this old newspaper article on the Internet, I was captivated by the author’s simple eloquence and his vivid description of life on the Wisconsin frontier more than 150 years ago. I wanted to...
View ArticleSeventeen Brought To Dubuque (2007)
Mr. Robert Curran, accompanied by Mrs. E. Higgins, the matron in charge, arrived over the Milwaukee at 8:06 yesterday morning with a flock of orphans from the Catholic foundling asylum in New York....
View ArticleEmigrants (2007)
The names of emigrants who left Schuyler county in 1849 for California, as furnished by Jonathan D. Manlove, Esq., leader of the company. The company left Rushville on the first of April and reached...
View ArticleSaw Their Old Bones (2007)
The first article below, and the additional one I found later got my curiosity up. Who was this Dr. Rae Felt? “Interesting name,” I thought. And notice in the second article that the X-ray technology...
View ArticleRural Mail Delivery Experiment (2007)
Within two years a man standing in Indianapolis will be able to put his finger on every farmhouse in Indiana – that is, on the map, says the Indianapolis News. This is one of the details of the rural...
View ArticlePoor All Her Life (2007)
There died at the county home a few days ago a woman remarkable in one respect, and that is that she in all probability held the world record as to successive days spent in the almshouse. Her name is...
View ArticleFight In Corkedale’s Row (2008)
That pack of two-legged live stock known as the McDermotts had a field day on Thursday. The fight commenced at 1 o’clock and continued until seven in the evening. It was the greatest female “scrap”...
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